On Fri, 2016-22-04 at 04:57:48 UTC, Michael Neuling wrote:
> Keep IRQ mappings on context teardown.  This won't leak IRQs as if we
> allocate the mapping again, the generic code will give the same
> mapping used last time.
> 
> Doing this works around a race in the generic code. Masking the
> interrupt introduces a race which can crash the kernel or result in
> IRQ that is never EOIed. The lost of EOI results in all subsequent
> mappings to the same HW IRQ never receiving an interrupt.
> 
> We've seen this race with cxl test cases which are doing heavy context
> startup and teardown at the same time as heavy interrupt load.
> 
> A fix to the generic code is being investigated also.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
> cc: [email protected] # 3.8
> Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/d6776bba44d9752f6cdf640046

cheers
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